Shawn Levy Feels ‘Brotherhood’ with Ryan Reynolds (Unique)

• Deadpool & Wolverine director Shawn Levy says Ryan Reynolds “actually appears like a inventive soulmate to me”
• Levy and Reynolds made the 2021 film Free Man and 2022’s The Adam Challenge earlier than embarking on Reynolds’ third Deadpool film collectively
• “We’re speaking about loads,” Levy says of future initiatives with Reynolds

After Deadpool & Wolverine, Shawn Levy and Ryan Reynolds are wanting to work collectively once more. Plus, their offscreen friendship has blossomed previous their profitable working relationship.

On Tuesday, April 23, Levy, 56, attended the Broadway premiere of Stranger Issues: The First Shadow on the Marquis Theatre in New York Metropolis, the place he instructed PEOPLE that Reynolds, 48, has grown into his “inventive soulmate” after making final 12 months’s Deadpool sequel collectively. They’ve additionally made films like Free Man and The Adam Challenge collectively.

“I really like that you just felt the necessity to say his final identify. I am very clear on the Ryan I’ve spent the final six years of my life with,” Levy says, after briefly discussing working with Ryan Gosling on an upcoming Star Wars film titled Starfighter.

Whereas Reynolds shared in November 2024 that he supposed to jot down a brand new film that he, Levy and Hugh Jackman would make collectively that exists outdoors of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Levy teases that he and Reynolds “positively [have] stuff” within the works.

“Between Free Man and Adam Challenge and Deadpool & Wolverine, Ryan Reynolds and I’ve a brotherhood,” he says. “And [he] actually appears like a inventive soulmate to me. So we’re speaking about loads. It might be authentic films, it might be associated to the final film we made. We’re speaking about loads. For certain, Reynolds and I aren’t achieved with one another.”

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Levy, who has labored on Netflix’s Stranger Issues as a producer and director for the reason that collection’ first season, provides that he and Reynolds are collectively “on a regular basis,” when requested how typically they hang around outdoors of labor. “We reside half a block away from one another,” he says. “We’re actual buddies.”

Reynolds and Levy’s inventive partnership reached new heights with Deadpool & Wolverine, which notably introduced Jackman, 56, again as his iconic X-Males character and dominated the field workplace in 2024. 

The pair frolicked collectively as lately as in February, after they stepped out to debate their careers for a moderated dialog at Yale College, as Levy posted on his Instagram on the time.

Whereas Reynolds instructed Selection in November that he’s growing a non-Marvel film for himself, Jackman and Levy to make, Deadpool & Wolverine actually left the door open for the group to re-team once more within the MCU.

No fourth Deadpool film has but been introduced, and Reynolds was not introduced as a part of 2026’s Avengers: Doomsday forged to this point, however the actor teased on social media that he is aware of secret details about Marvel’s future shortly after Deadpool & Wolverine hit theaters.